Bluesnik

I had to pay a custom duty once and since then don't order from Mosaic as I did before (discussed here in another thread). Now I'm back at ordering from them to take advantage of the June offer. Let's see how the affair with the customs duties turns out this time.

Same here. Though it's an album I love I'm not sure I need anything more than what was released on that occasion. And I love the Nouvelle Vague movie too. They go incredibly well together.

I have that Ortega reissue from Freshsound, though I'm afraid it's OOP now.

Good article. I knew him from his Contemporary fame.

A pretty nice set. Together with the Brookmeyer Select I got later.

I think this whole GDPR initiative aims at that.

The impressed re-pressed edition.

The Moncur, Pepper, Boogie Woogie, Pacific Jazz piano trios and the Brookmeyer.

That's Japanese reissue policy.

I always have stated that I miss BN music from this period. I have some TOCJs from the 7000 series from 98 or 99. Covers here.

I picked it up as it was going OOP at Mosaic, together with the Teddy Wilson, and I don't regret having taken the plunge.

A great one.

Yes, that's true: they're changing their policy of being as obscure as possible about sources, to giving more detailed information and even repros of the original covers (see the Lucky Thompson set of parisian Small Group Sessions, which won a French reissue project prize) as of lately.

A very good box. One need only have a look at those involved.

I once read about them but they were a fan released rarity that was unavailable at the time. I didn't know anybody had rereleased them. Thanks for reminding me.

And Jim, I'll follow your advice.

I was listening to this exact trio the other night on the Basie/Young Mosaic. Very, very good. https://www.discogs.com/Miles-Davis-The-Complete-Bitches-Brew-Sessions/master/51315 Or this longbox version, or the 40th anniversary edition. https://www.discogs.com/Miles-Davis-Bitches-Brew/release/7080006 Thanks, Mike. Now I know what to look for. I think it will be the longbox, rather than the 40th anniversary edition.

Among these there is a very fine Jim Hall live recording from 75 (I think), which I have as one of those mini-LPs Universal or Verve released domestically at the beginnings of the 2000s.

I'm on a Miles binge lately, pulling out pieces here and there. Maybe because I'm rereading his autobiography. But this is great. I'm looking out for Bitches Brew, which I don't have. Is it in one of the volumes Sony/Legacy put out in the nineties, one of which was devoted to the second quintet and others to his work with Gil Evans?

That album is also one of my favorite Baker albums. With top shelf European musicians (Rene Thomas and Bobby Jaspar among them) and recorded in Rome in the normally weak Baker 60s it is very good.

I love that Barclay album, which must be contained in the Barclay sessions mentioned above. It's with Dick Twardzik, one of the best pianists he ever played with. But I also love the Mulligan/Baker quartet, mentioned before. Being a big Baker fan I think what I like most (as in most artists cases) are his early works.

I have a Taschen edition from some years ago. Though I remember browsing through that Rock Lexikon (a combination of the drawings from Rock Dreams and a kind of rock encyclopedia) back in my school days, that went from hand to hand. It was so used that all the leaves would come apart.

Thanks.